Chapter 5...Part 2

The 3 of them made fairly good time and was soon in Maryland. There wasn’t anyone else to unload the truck so the guest and the girl helped unload the load. They were each given souvenirs from the owners of a pen and an insulated coffee cup.

After the 3 of them left the drop off place they went to the TA truck stop in Maryland. They all discussed what to do next. The guest promised Sam that they would buy him a new truck. Of course by this time the guest had time to tell Sam that they owned a race team and had a lot of money from his inheritance, yes, the same story that had started this entire journey. Sam was of course thrilled that he had decided to help this couple who in turn was going to help him out.

The guest told Sam that he needed him to loan him money to get a rental car and to drive to Merrill Lynch in Florida. The girl never could figure out why everyone believed the guest’s stories but they did and she was starting to believe it again. She had now been only with the guest for over 2 months.

The 3 of them drove to Richmond, VA where Sam got a rental car for the couple. The couple promised Sam they would be in touch. Amazingly Sam believed the couple and sent them on their way with a rental car in his name and money he had advanced to them.

The couple drove from Richmond to Saint Augustine, FL that night. They stopped in South Carolina on the way at a TA truck stop for a late night snack and a couple of video games. The girl had driven most of the way while the guest slept. The guest took over and drove the rest of the way into Florida in the rain.

They had now kind of come full circle again. They were back in Saint Augustine. They drove down to Ocala and then on to Wildwood. The couple stayed over in Inverness.

That night, Friday, the girl called her parents. She found out her grandfather on her mother’s side was dying. This was her last living grandparent. She was so upset that she wasn’t there that she didn’t know what to do. She told the guest that she needed to get back home to see her grandfather before he died. The guest promised her he would find a way to get her home for her grandfather. The girl also called her friend in Oklahoma and told him what was going on. He told her that if she could get to a bus station that he would buy her a bus ticket home so she could be there for her grandfather’s death. He was not happy that she had not used the money wisely before but he would help her out nonetheless.

The girl started to look up bus stations and where she would need to catch the bus.

The next day the guest told her they were going in search of one of his employees for the race team. This was the guy who owned the shop where they fixed all the cars. The stop was in Inverness. They drove through the city and the guest took her by where the stop was supposed to be. It was now called something else. They got the phone number off of the building and drove around some more. The guest took her to a house where he said he had lived with his previous wife.

The couple went back to the motel for the night and tried desperately to decide what to do on Monday. The discussion started out that they would get closer to Miami and to Merrill Lynch. The guest wanted to head that way on Sunday and stay over near Orlando until Monday morning then move onto Miami. The girl was starting to get worried. They would be further away with less money and not guaranteed to get into Merrill Lynch. What if something else happened and they were stuck in Miami with no place to go. The guest finally agreed that they should stay where they were and call on Monday morning.